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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1969
Page
11
In League City, Robert E. Lee and Sterling posted clear victories in the Clear Creek Invitational. Lee beat La Marque 73-51 and Forest Park fell to Sterling 63-54 as Gill shooters led with balanced scoring. Lee advances to face Kashmere at 2 p.m. Saturday with a potential final berth.
New Orleans AP reports high demand for Superbowl tickets at 15 dollars each. Priscilla Corripell of Gretna, mother of eight, pays two sons and neighborhood youths to wait outside the Saints ticket office, hoping to snag tickets as dawn crowds form for the world championship game between NFL champs and the other league. Temperatures dip, vendors alert, and a growing line of hopeful buyers files in as the event draws near.
New York AP reports jockey Larry Adams won four races at Aqueduct on Friday. He captured the sixth aboard Handley Cross for $7.20, then Perfect Tan for $17.80, Sequential at $12.80, and Paisley Lautre at $35.69. The card highlighted Adams’s four victory spree. For West Palm Beach Florida, the Cleveland Indians pitching coach Jack Sanford, 41, will quit baseball to direct a West Palm Beach golf club. Sanford, a major leaguer since 1948, earned rookie of the year honors with a 19-6 season with the Phillies.
Baytown junior varsity teams split results in the local tournament. Clear Creek beat Wheatley to win a heralded victory as Rayburn, Sterling, Kashmere and Lee units posted wins. Pence led Clear Creek with 34 points, Archer added 28 for Wheatley, with other scorers named for several schools as consolation and title games were scheduled at Lee gym.
Dec 20 marks the deadline for YMCA youth basketball registrations for boys in sixth to eighth grade. A $ fee covers a uniform and admission to a Dec 29 234 basketball clinic at the Y. Practices and games run at the YMCA starting Jan 15. college students may apply to coach or officiate.
HAMPSHIRE Texas Kountze Lions crushed Barbers Hill Eagles 176 to 38 at the Hampshire raanett Invitational. Ricky Brazell led with 19 points, James Brannon scored 28 for Kountze, while Keith Elliott added 10 and Anthony Manning 24. Eagles drop to loser's bracket to face Hardin-Jefferson of Sour Lake.
The Minnesota Vikings 11-1 seek a 12th straight win and a shot at the all-time 13-game mark as they face the 49ers 3-7-2 in a pivotal NFL showdown. The Rams 11-1 also loom with two games left, while Los Angeles meets Detroit and Chicago hosts Baltimore. Other Week 14 matchups feature Green Bay at Chicago and Dallas vs Baltimore among key contests.
Barbers Hill High School girls edge Katy 28 26 to reach the Spring Basketball Tournament final meet winner of the Waller Hempstead game at 7 30 p m Saturday Maggie Joseph scores 15 Katrina Smith 11 Townsend 12 lead Katy Barbers Hill previously beat Tomball 31 points by Smith and 11 by Joseph in opening round Williams Bonita Williams and Debbie Sylvia shine from guard spots
The Associated Press-driven college scores show East American International edging Maine 108 to 97. Other results include W Georgia 83 over Morehouse 8, Oklahoma 102 over South Alabama 68, and multiple Midwest West and West Coast wins with scores like Hanover 72 over Xavier 71 and UCLA 127 to 69 over Miami Florida.
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